Swing Time

Name: Swing Time
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Musical
Released: August 28, 1936
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 91
Cast: Betty Furness, Eric Blore, Fred Astaire, Georges Metaxa, Ginger Rogers

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RKO Radio Pictures | Release Date: August 28, 1936 | TV-G

Starring: Betty Furness, Eric Blore, Fred Astaire, Georges Metaxa, Ginger Rogers, Harry Bernard, Harry Bowen, Helen Broderick, Victor Moore, William Bailey

Summary: A performer and gambler travels to New York City to raise the $25,000 he needs to marry his fiancée, only to become entangled with a beautiful aspiring dancer.

Director: George Stevens

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance, Musical

Rating: TV-G

Runtime: 103 min

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Tim Purtell

Top Hat is tops with two of the duo’s most sublime numbers. The George Stevens-directed Swing Time, featuring glorious Jerome Kern-Dorothy Fields songs, is just as good. Read full review

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Top Hat may be more energetic and glossy, but Swing Time is arguably the most magical of the ten films Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made together. Their dancing and acting rapport are at a peak and director George Stevens shows more finesse than Mark Sandrich in lending the couple's rocky romance a genuinely heartfelt quality. Read full review

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Roger Ebert

What Fred and Ginger had together, and what no other team has ever had in the same way, was a joy of performance. They were so good, and they knew they were so good, that they danced in celebration of their gifts. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Philip French

Marvellous Astaire-Rogers musical with the usual high-gloss production. [06 Jan 2013, p.38]

Chuck Bowen

Swing Time has some of Astaire and Rogers’s mightiest set pieces, which are intertwined to reflect their characters’ evolving relationship. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

It's not quite as charming as Top Hat or Shall We Dance, and the plotting drags heavily in spots, but whenever it gets free from the demands of farce, it's a dizzy delight. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

If plot, script and supporters are below par, the score by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields is peerless. Read full review

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